[For Middle School Students] Also Helpful for Haiku Writing! A Collection of Famous Haiku Using Spring Seasonal Words

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.

A haiku that captures the arrival of spring in the rhythm of 5-7-5.For junior high school students, the experience of distilling the changing seasons and familiar scenery into words enriches their sensibilities.The way cherry blossom petals dance, and the feeling of wanting to go outside, drawn by the gentle, balmy weather.Why not try composing such uniquely springtime scenes in words that are your very own?This time, for junior high school students working on spring haiku, we will introduce some famous haiku related to spring.As you face the words, enjoy a moment of rediscovering the charm of spring.

For Middle Schoolers: A Collection of Famous Haiku Using Spring Season Words (1–10)

Tulips carry only joyNEW!Ayako Hosomi

When spring comes, colorful tulips bloom, expressing a joy that brightens the heart just by looking at them.

With the phrase “holding only joy,” it symbolizes the beauty of flowers, the delight of spring, and a pure happiness free of worries.

Through the flowers, this verse lets you feel the positive, radiant energy of nature.

It serves as a helpful example for middle school students composing haiku, showing how to connect the characteristics and colors of spring flowers and the brightness of the season with their own feelings.

It is a verse that also conveys the pleasure of carefully observing spring’s nature and flowers.

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Running late for the field trip, we still caught up and linked togetherNEW!Kyoshi Takahama

Here is a haiku about a school outing.

It depicts the moment when a child who had fallen behind the line of the excursion runs in haste and finally reconnects with everyone.

From the phrase “running, having been late,” you can feel the anxious yet earnest desire to catch up.

With “having become connected,” you sense the relief and joy of rejoining friends.

It expresses, in brief words, the small dramas that arise in school life and interactions with friends.

It’s a good example for middle schoolers writing haiku, encouraging them to observe everyday events and the emotions of the seasons.

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Out in the fields, everyone is kind—peach blossoms.NEW!Takano Soju

It describes how, when you go out into the spring fields, the beauty of peach blossoms blooming in the warm sunlight soothes your heart, and you can feel not only nature but also the kindness in the people around you.

With the phrase “everyone is gentle,” it gently conveys that spring’s brightness and calm soften people’s hearts as well.

In just a few words, human kindness overlaps with springtime nature, letting you feel the joy and warmth of spring.

This haiku can serve as a reference for middle school students when composing their own poems, encouraging them to express not only seasonal flowers and scenery but also the feelings they experienced.

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For Junior High Students: Also Helpful for Haiku Writing! A Collection of Famous Haiku Using Spring Season Words (11–20)

Go outside as well—the spring moon seems close enough to touch.NEW!Teijo Nakamura

It depicts the moon floating in the spring night sky, shining so brightly and seemingly so close that you could almost touch it.

By calling out, “Come outside too,” it conveys a wish not to miss the moon’s beauty and to place oneself in nature and feel it.

You can sense the soft spring night breeze and the quiet atmosphere, and in few words it expresses the nearness between the moon, oneself, and nature.

It is a verse that can serve as a reference for middle school students composing haiku, using the power of seasonal words to connect nature’s beauty with their own feelings, and it is a haiku that makes it easy to imagine the gentle scene of a spring night.

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March’s sweet bean candies— ufufufufuNEW!Nenten Tsubouchi

It expresses the joy and delight of eating sweet, tiny amanattō amid the springlike weather of March with the giggle “ufufufufu.” Though brief, it conveys the gentle atmosphere of spring and the feeling of everyday little happiness.

By honestly expressing one’s emotions through food and seasonal happenings, it’s a verse that naturally brings a smile to the reader.

It serves as a useful example for middle schoolers writing haiku, showing how to link seasonal sense with personal feelings, and it lets you savor the fun of spring and the simple happiness close at hand.

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The nightingale turns its body upside down—first songNEW!Takarai Kikaku

It depicts hearing the bush warbler begin to sing at the start of spring, its call a bit awkward, as if it were singing upside down.

The phrase “hatsune ya” conveys the surprise and delight of noticing the first song of the year.

By closely observing the bird’s small movements and the qualities of its voice, this verse lets one strongly feel the arrival of spring.

Though brief, it conveys the sounds of nature, the breath of life, and the change of seasons, making it a useful example for middle schoolers composing haiku to observe and express sound, motion, and seasonal atmosphere.

It’s a verse that lets you savor the feeling of spring’s beginning.

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Skinny frog, don’t lose—Issa is here.NEW!Kobayashi Issa

It expresses how Issa himself feels encouraged as he watches a frog, thinned over the winter, hop about energetically in spring.

The phrase “Don’t give up, Issa” conveys a positive spirit of living bravely without yielding to hardship.

With “here it is,” it emphasizes that the feeling of encouragement is right here.

Despite its brevity, the verse evokes the arrival of spring, the vigor of nature, and even the poet’s self-encouragement.

It serves as a useful example for middle school students composing haiku, showing how to express feelings through small creatures in nature or everyday events.

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